In the healthy state, the need to understand the world induces Type Fives
to observe and analyze the world, which help them to better understand the
world. When Fives reach a good understanding of the world around them,
their need is satisfied and a balance is reached.

In the average state, when Fives' do less of observing and analyzing the
world,
they start to not understand the world. This increases their need to
understand the world, which helps Fives to return to more observation and
analysis. Thus the balancing loop can help Fives to recover.

Unhealthy loop controlled by Basic Fear:

Fear of being overwhelmed by the world ->
detach from the world ->
understand the world ->
Fear of being overwhelmed by the world

In the unhealthy state, the basic fear of being overwhelmed by the world can
cause Type Fives to become detached from the people around them and the
world around them as a defense. This unfortunately causes them to understand
the world even less, which further increases Fives' basic fear.
The cycle continues to build up.

Insight:

We can see from the diagram that a way to help break the control of the
basic fear is to weaken the unhealthy loop. Fives can stop their detachment
from the world, and start to observe and analyze the real world more.
This will increase their understanding of the world,
and reduce their fear of being overwhelmed by the world.